Obama: “We have lifted the world from the brink”
At a summit of G-20 obscured, at least in the U.S., for the Iran crisis, U.S. President, Barack Obama, said yesterday that thanks to the coordination of major economies, “has managed to bring the world to the edge of abyss “which was only six months.
Despite the vagueness of the final statement, Obama also was pleased with concrete results at this meeting in Pittsburgh, where he said “has created the framework to ensure sustained prosperity and balanced long-term.”
The U.S. president failed, however, make that transcendence complicit journalists attending the press conference that concluded the summit. Only one question had to do with the G-20, but actually was referring to street protests that had occurred in recent days. The rest, Iran.
Still, Obama emphasized the value of this meeting in the context of the message that he had directed on Wednesday the UN General Assembly, namely that all countries must assume their share of responsibility in achieving a prosperous future without waiting for U.S. to do it alone.
For Obama, Pittsburgh has been a good start in that direction for several reasons. First, because it has made clear that the economic recovery will occur only at the expense of Americans consume what others are exported, but will require “an effort responsible for all” to revive its own markets and why not also make room for U.S. exports.
Pittsburgh has been important, secondly, according to Obama, because it has in common the need to remain vigilant in maintaining and strengthening the rules to prevent disasters like the one suffered. “We can not again tolerate the economy boom and bankruptcy (disproportionate benefits and deep crisis) we’ve had in the past,” he said.
The G-20 is imposed
And thirdly, the U.S. president values the importance of this summit because it marks the recognition of the true balance of power in today’s global economy. This can be interpreted from their point of view, acceptance of the G-20 as a major economic forum.
Obama is a strong advocate of increasing the role that the economies of developing countries like China, India or Brazil, are currently in the bodies inherited from the postwar order, and is determined to go further in this field. “We can not,” he said yesterday, “addressing the challenges of the XXI century with twentieth century institutions.
The president wanted to leave this city in the U.S. industrial belt with an optimistic, but cautious. “We came here confident and united,” he said. With the economy in the ascending line and better controlled. But there is still some very difficult: “We must ensure that when the growth also reach the jobs.”
